āLeaders are not what many people thinkāpeople with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see whether anyone is following them. āLeadership qualitiesā are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, determination, a keen sense of […]
The <form> function() & .class Philippine Web Design Conference returns this September 10 & 11—yup, two days of workshops and plenary sessions tackling the future of web design from the industry’s finest talents, including Dan Matutina, John Leyson, Rico Sta. Cruz, Jason Torres, JP de Guzman, Drei Gonzales, Allan Caeg. Visit PWDO.org for more details about the event. Early bird ticket rates end on September 3. Passes include conference gear, […]
ā¦But in the meantime: Go register for our MiniFFC next Thursday (beer! pizza! FFC tickets!) and the big FFC next September (workshops! networking! goodies! afterparty!) and read Mae’s post, ācause if both our blogs were on Tumblr I’d be reblogging the heck out of it and adding a ton of applause/THIS/bless this post images below. I want to see it get over its rebellious teenage stage, quit its cocaine sniffing […]
Here’s something I wrote a year ago: I panic when I hit Save Draft in WordPress & see the Publish button gets the same “pressed” visual effect. I switch tabs, then forget I’m just saving it, then what I see is the blue button getting pressed, then I panic The probable explanation for this is to disable the Publish button when you press Save Draft. But there was no indicator […]
TIME Magazine writes about fan fiction (with a timely Harry Potter slant, of course). I want so badly to quote the whole thing here (but it’s long, 5 “pages” long) so I’ll just grab the snippet being passed around on Tumblr: Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed […]
In 1997, when I was first hired at New York magazine, Kurt Andersen, now a best-selling novelist and radio-show host, had just been fired as editor. Everybody was grieving about this, though not me, since I wouldnāt have had a job there otherwise. And though it wasnāt until years later that I even met Kurt, he unwittingly left me a gift: tacked to the bulletin board in the office I […]
I’ve felt this way for a long time. Many were outraged when Willie Revillame goaded a child named Jan-Jan to dance in a macho dancer style. Even while he was already crying, he was still goaded to dance. Needless to say, it already caused a Net Rage and it revived initiatives to permanently censure the long-notorious Revillame, who had smears on his name after the MTB incident and the Wowowee […]
Allen Rabinovich of the YUI team says a front-end engineer has many hats. One must be an engineer, an anthroplogist, an artist, and a writer, and to a lesser extent, a paranoid and a futurist. Even if this isn’t up your alley, the talk is insightful and inspiring for conference speaking—he used one long slide of doodles (instant sketchnotes) revealed portion by portion. Transcript here. (via)
Design × Code × Words for a better Web,
made in the Philippines by Sophia Lucero.
